Exclusive Interview with Jon Lys Turner, author of ‘The Visitor’s Book’

Today marks a very special day, for on this day in 1957 Ian Fleming met a young illustrator that was to prove pivotal in the lives of both men and the future of the James Bond novels. That illustrator was Richard Wasey Chopping. We spoke to one of Chopping’s trustees – Jon Lys Turner –…

Denis Wirth-Miller, Francis Bacon, Richard 'Dicky' Chopping

Bohemia in Miniature: Wivenhoe and Richard Chopping

by MW Bewick It is only a matter of time. Sooner or later, if you get talking to the locals in Wivenhoe, Essex, someone will namedrop Richard Chopping: “Oh, Dicky and Denis,” they will say. “You don’t know about Dicky and Denis? If you’d been here when they were here… Wivenhoe was much more, well,…

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Exclusive Interview with Jon Lys Turner, author of ‘The Visitor’s Book’

Bohemia in Miniature: Wivenhoe and Richard Chopping